ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,420, issued on June 23, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Mesh-based architecture for DC microgrid control to achieve accurate current sharing among converters" was invented by Shrivatsal Sharma (Raleigh, N.C.) and Subhashish Bhattacharya (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to DC microgrid control. In one example, a system includes a mesh DC microgrid network having at least 4 microgrid DC nodes. The mesh DC microgrid network can be organized as clusters of three node DC microgrid systems, where each cluster include three of the at least 4 microgrid DC no...